Picked this up mixed and matched for $1.85. Into a pint glass.A - Big head on this one 2+ inches that take a while to settle with good lacing. Color is a mildly hazy orange yellow.S - Mild fruit, some orange peel, mildly bready. It smells good.T - Sweet malts, mild hop presence, a touch of orange peel. It's good.M - Light to medium bodied easy to drink.

Overall it's a good Kolsch but not great. A decent take on the style. (430 characters)

My go-to bottle shop is The Friendly Greek, where they will put almost anything in the cooler as a single just so that I can try it and report out and back. I guess that you could say that this was from their Community to mine.

One thing that I miss when doing these bottle reviews as opposed to engaging in The CANQuest ™ is the lack of auditory pleasure. Pop!ping a cap and beginning a pour does not have the same cachet as a Crack! & Glug, but I am soldiering on all the same. This made a pretty quick transition from the bottle to beer with just under two fingers of foamy, off-white head with very limited retention. In fact, it was falling just a little less quickly than I could type, leaving some nice lacing in its wake. Color was Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7) with NE-quality clarity and my mates, Mammon, Midas and Croesus showed up for a taste. After they departed, it was my turn. Nose had a cracker-like maltiness and a slight Noble hoppiness. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste had a lager-like honey-like sweetness and I was really thinking that this might be either a Lager or a German Pilsner. The BJCP says that this interpretation marks me as “an untrained taster”. Hmmm. Finish was semi-dry, striking a nice balance between the malt and hops. A very easy-drinking beer that begged to be drank with some hard pretzels (which I always have around). The Kolns of Germany would not be unhappy with this beer. (1,429 characters)